| Abstrakt: |
More than 600 deaths of all causes have been documented over the 40-year duration of the Bogalusa Heart Study. Of these, 97 deaths have been related to cardiovascular events, based on obituaries published in local newspapers, death certificates obtained from the State Health Department, information from the coroner and word of mouth by nursing staff from the community. Excluding pulmonary, congenital and non-coronary cardiovascular diseases, 46 deaths (average age at death 44.7 years, range 31 to 55) were considered to have been related to coronary artery disease, ie myocardial infarction. Cardiovascular risk factor observations, gathered from multiple surveys (average of 4.4 surveys, range 1 to 14) since childhood, indicated that body fatness and elevated blood pressure beginning in childhood were more common in subjects who later died from coronary artery disease than in living subjects. |
